Re: RFC - new switches for 'cvs status'

[Robert J. Clark]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:30:57 -0400
"Matthew Persico" <address@hidden> wrote:

> -i for interesting - skip all the Up-to-date entries, just show me
> everything else.
> 
> -s for short - skip the equals signs, the versions, etc. Just show me
> directory names and file lines such as:
> 
> examining bar/yo/mama
> File: foo.pm         Status: Locally Added
> File: barf.pm        Status: Up-to-date
> 
> Does this sound like something that could/should be patched into the source?
> A show of hands, please, before I attempt to hack up a patch.

Sounds very interesting. I have been using a Perl script that I 
hacked together to wrap "cvs status" and reformat so that the 
output is similar to what you have above. I think this would be 
very useful (and non-intrusive) feature for CVS.

- Rob